Hi, I recently purchased a new custom PC. It came with 1GB (2 x 512MB DDR2 PC5300). I decided to buy some more RAM and got 2 sticks of 512MB DDR2 PC 4200. After installing all four sticks, the computer does not start, the monitor does not detect a signal and nothing happens. Sometimes after re-seating the sticks it does work, but then it randomly shuts off. Sometimes it just starts and gives me an "BIOS ROM Checksum error". After removing the two new sticks everything is fine.
Is it the memory that's bad?
My specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus M2N4-SLI motherboard
eVGA Nvidia Geforce 7600GS 512MB PCI-E
2x512 DDR2 PC5300
2x512 DDR2 PC4200
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Is it the memory that's bad?
My specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus M2N4-SLI motherboard
eVGA Nvidia Geforce 7600GS 512MB PCI-E
2x512 DDR2 PC5300
2x512 DDR2 PC4200
Windows XP Home Edition SP2